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Ivory Coast state TV signal cut off in some areas

By ASSOCIATED PRESS

DECEMBER 24, 2010 04:30

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast — Ivory Coast state television disappeared from the airwaves outside the nation's largest city late Thursday, a blow to the incumbent president's attempts to cling to power in the bloody aftermath of an election most of the world says he lost.

The state television channel controlled by incumbent Gbagbo continued to air in Abidjan, but only black and white snow appeared in at least six other cities around the West African nation just minutes before Ivorians sat down to their nightly newscast, residents told The Associated Press.

It was not immediately clear how the signal was cut off. Advisers to Ouattara refused to comment, but the event falls in line with a series of strategies Ouattara has been employing to try to break Gbagbo's stranglehold on the news.

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